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Wilson and Renwick
Renwick began writing solo in 1990 when he created the sitcom One Foot in the Grave, starring Richard Wilson, which was highly successful and went on to be a popular hit for the following decade.
Architect James Renwick was commissioned in 1859 to a museum building to house William Wilson Corcoran ’ s growing art collection.
The Renwick Gallery building was originally built to be Washington, D. C .' s first art museum and to house William Wilson Corcoran's collection of American and European art.

Wilson and felt
At the hospital in a state of despair Wilson experienced a bright flash of light which he felt to be God revealing himself.
President Wilson felt obliged to acknowledge the boy as theirs and sent the couple a note that simply said, " With congratulations to the baby.
Roy Jenkins has suggested that Wilson may have been motivated partly by the distaste for politics felt by his loyal and long-suffering wife, Mary.
During the Pet Sounds sessions, Wilson had been working on another song, which was held back from inclusion on the record as he felt that it was not sufficiently complete.
Unable to achieve an honorable peace himself, Ludendorff had handed over power to the new civilian government, but he then blamed them for what he felt was a humiliating armistice that U. S. President Woodrow Wilson was proposing.
Wilson decided to use the words anyway, since he felt that it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberate gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs.
This was opposed by Kitchener, who disliked Wilson, ( the War Secretary was one of the few senior British players apart from Wilson who could speak fluent French ) and Prime Minister Asquith, who felt he was too Francophile and too fond of " mischief " ( political intrigue ).
However, many other observers at the time, e. g. the young Archibald Wavell in the Caucasus, felt that the advent of democracy in Russia would reinvigorate her war effort, so Wilson ’ s views were not entirely unusual.
On 10 April Wilson impressed on Foch the need to keep contact with the British right flank if the BEF felt compelled to retreat on the Channel Ports.
Wilson's diplomacy and his Fourteen Points had essentially established the conditions for the armistices that had brought an end to World War I. Wilson felt it was his duty and obligation to the people of the world to be a prominent figure at the peace negotiations.
Intense media scrutiny of the disagreement between Wilson and Ross and the tour itself ensued, and many fans of the original Supremes felt that the tour could not rightly be described as a " reunion ".
He was hostile to John James Audubon, whose drawings he disliked and who he felt was usurping the position of Wilson.
Wilson was a strong supporter of Somoza, and felt his strong anti-communist regime was being undermined by the Carter Administration's human rights-focused foreign policy.
French and like-minded British communists saw the Wilson / Callaghan government of 1974-79 as implementing " class collaborationist " policies and felt this was becoming more obvious to the working class, but believed the CPGB was incapable of presenting a clear revolutionary perspective, and had no capacity to rally workers on a mass scale against the capitalist offensive.
Wilson stated: " I think he felt kind of sorry for us ".
The landmark Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space saw the influence of African-American gospel and blues beginning to show, while " walls of sound " modelled after the production styles of Phil Spector and Brian Wilson also made their presence felt.
( Garrison's kept quiet, but felt Wilson was " a man of high ideals but no principles.
Powell, H. Littek, E. Henry, Emerson Wilson, and H. Griffin, felt that they had received more light from God concerning the original eschatology of the movement.
Broadrick recalls the breakdown as a " real Brian Wilson moment " and said that he " felt paralyzed by the stress, which had been building for several months, and I literally couldn't get out of bed.
They felt the change of scenery would make for some inspirational sessions, and perhaps even snap former leader Brian Wilson out of his deep depression.
" Wilson felt that Grant could not deal with the " lot of relatives who were always trying to use him " and perhaps attacked those he saw as their counterpart — opportunistic traders who were Jewish.
Clarke was the choice of both Woodrow Wilson and Attorney General James Clark McReynolds, who felt that the position required a " first rate appointment " to deal with the backlog in the court's docket, and that Clarke's high standing before the Ohio bar marked him out as a man of " decided ability ".
Series 6 was scheduled to begin filming in 2003, but Nick Wilson, of Channel 5, and Raymond Thompson felt that " although the show was still performing well, the cast was getting too old and the series was beginning to stretch the core proposition.

Wilson and experience
This account, supported by biologist E. O. Wilson and philosopher Michael Ruse, proposes that the human experience of morality is a by-product of natural selection, a theory philosopher Mark D. Linville calls evolutionary naturalism.
Thacher told Wilson about the Oxford Group, and through them Wilson became aware of Hazard's experience with Jung.
Edmund Wilson stated that " To expose oneself in maturity to Uncle Tom's Cabin may ... prove a startling experience.
" Playwright August Wilson used the term " ghetto " in Ma Rainey ’ s Black Bottom ( 1984 ) and Fences ( 1987 ), both of which draw upon the author ’ s experience growing up in the Hill district of Pittsburgh, a black ghetto.
Burke and black performers like James Brown, Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett, " would adopt the ' house-wrecking ' tactics of black preachers, and their shows functioned in much the same way as black religious events in that performer and audience became immersed in the music, arriving together at an ecstatic state that allowed them to feel a deep intensity of experience.
Creator Hugh Wilson said that despite Smithers ' lack of experience ( she had never done a situation comedy before ), she was perfect for the character of Bailey as he had conceived her: " Other actresses read better for the part ", Wilson recalled, " but they were playing shy.
Their association would also result in Ford's book Woodrow Wilson, the Man and His Work, which was an account of Wilson's experience on the presidential campaign trail.
* The circumstances surrounding Peter Green ’ s experience at the Highfisch-Kommune are explored in Ada Wilson ’ s novel Red Army Faction Blues ISBN 978-1-901927-48-1
About that visit, Wilson later said that it " was the experience that will always be seared in my memory, was going through those hospitals and seeing, especially those children with their hands blown off from the mines that the Soviets were dropping from their helicopters.
In " The Charlie Wilson Real Story " Wilson reveals he traveled to Las Vegas in the summer of 1980, and recalls an experience with two strippers in a hot tub.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson recast the alliance as a ' close relationship ', but neither he nor President Lyndon B. Johnson had any experience of foreign policy, and Wilson's attempt to mediate in Vietnam, where the United Kingdom was co-chairman with the Soviet Union of the Geneva Conference, was unwelcome to the president, who was rumoured to have called the prime minister a ' creep '.
The administration of President Woodrow Wilson created an advisory Aircraft Production Board in May 1917, consisting of members of the Army, Navy, and industry, to study the Europeans ' experience in aircraft production and the standardization of aircraft parts.
Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, reported that his experience with LSD closely resembled the spiritual transformation that led him to overcome the compulsion to drink.
Paul Wilson, with 36 years of industry experience, ten of those with SSAB including management of Mobile's steel operation, became the vice president in charge of the American steel operations.
The Raiders, however, believing that Marc Wilson did not have the experience they wanted, called on Plunkett to start for the remainder of the year.
She has appeared several times on the same stage as lead singer Ann Wilson and guitarist Nancy Wilson, once describing the experience as " beyond a dream come true ".
Gretchen Wilson sang the National Anthem ( blended with a voice-over of the Pledge of Allegiance ) to a national audience at the Republican National Convention on September 3, 2008, later describing this as a " once-in-a-lifetime " experience at an " historic moment ".
Skilled engineers and machinists, many with armory experience, spread interchangeable manufacturing techniques to other American industries including clockmakers and sewing machine manufacturers Wilcox and Gibbs and Wheeler and Wilson, who used interchangeable parts before 1860.
Creator Hugh Wilson said that despite Smithers ' lack of experience ( she had never done a situation comedy before ), she was perfect for the character of Bailey as he had conceived her: " Other actresses read better for the part ," Wilson recalled, " but they were playing shy.

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